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Letters to the Editor: Englands greener grass

AFTER reading Allan Brown (Ecosse, July 11), I felt compelled to write in order to stem this elitist attitude sweeping the great and the good of the Scottish media about how nice they are to English people and how ashamed we all should be. Should we not lay down our Barbour jackets if someone from England steps into a Scottish puddle? Brown feels that Scotland has little to offer in terms of rural friendliness and sightseeing. There are loads of nice friendly places to visit in Scotland but our various tourist boards fail to advertise them properly and the accommodation, quite frankly, “sucks” in many places. I lived in England for a number of years and, yes, there are great benefits. But please don’t think the grass beyond Carlisle is greener.

Peter Duncanvia e-mail

BRITISH VIRTUES: Brown’s wind-up on Englishness was certainly amusing (Ecosse, last week). But many of